Should official factions have more power?

[Spear]

Well ... guess I'm the lonely NO vote ... or at least the 1st NO vote.

The only way I would change my vote to YES is if the official faction leadership operated with a bit of restraint and maturity. Merc bans and such are annoying as all get out. Don't care how in role play you think it is ... it totally disrupts everyone else from having fun on the server. If these faction leaders wanna do role play bans ... then they need to be specific. Ban a specific faction (official or unofficial) ... ban individual mercs that misbehave and such. But generic bans on an entire ID pisses me off to no end.

Official factions with too much power tend to dominate everything ... we don't need some lone immature dictator ruining everyone else's fun just so they can have a power trip.

Heh I knew you were going to vote "No" mate:D

This is why I disliked the term "power", official factions don't need more power, what they need is "respect". Like it or not the official factions are trying to role play the NPC faction they represent. Anyone who dislikes this arrangement and is incapable of following a very simple hierarchy should look to a faction that does not have an "official" player faction and join them.

Official factions are not ruled by despots, they are run by players with support and concensus from the highest ranked players in that faction. Sometimes the RP takes you too places that we would rather not go, for example the merc ban or the current Liberty trade embargo. The Merc ban was a pain to enforce and the embargo is just as bad, trying to enforce a trade embargo while avoiding 3 lolboats out to spam your lone fighter to death gets boring pretty fast.

Still I'd like to see official factions achieve the respect they should hold and in the future any major policy made by an official faction that may be considered controversial is reviewed bt the admins and either approved or denied.

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